Improvement in pelting-machines



PATENT Ormea.

W. A. LYON, OF DANBURY, OONEGTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN FELTINVG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 66,603, dated July 9,1867.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W. A. LYON, of Danbury, in the county of Fairfieldand State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Sizing or Feltin g Machines; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompany in g drawings, makin gpart of thisspecification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, likeletters indicating like Vparts wherever they occur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe it.

My invention consists in making a new and improved feltingmachine forfur hats or other similar articles.

Figure l represents a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 2 represents anend view.

In making machines for l'elting hats it has been customary, wherereciprocating beds or rubbers were used, to have a pump or other devicearranged to pour upon them, or on the material being operated upon, astream of hot water or steam. Such construction of the machines renderedthem expensive and cumbersome and liable to get out of order. Inaddition to this it is found to be difficult, if not impossible, toinsure a uniform wetting ot' all the material where the hot water orsteam is delivered by such means.

To remedy these objections and at'the same time provide a simple, cheap,and efficient machine, is the object of my present invention.

To accomplish these objects I construct an oblong frame, A, of anyrequired size, having a water-tight box or vat, O, in its lower portion,as represented in Fig. 1. Within this vat I place two reciprocating bedsor rubbers, a and b, the former being mounted on grooved rollers c,resting and moving on a track, c. secured in the vat, as represented inFig. 1.v The other bed, b, is placed directly over a, and has Secured toits upper side a rod, ct', near each end, and over these a longer rod,c', these rods being so arranged as to leave a space between them, inwhich grooved rollers j', attached to a metal frame, B, are located, asshown in Fig. 1.

The metal frame B consists of vertical bars or rods having transversebars g at the bottom, to the ends of which the axles for the rollers fare connected, braces h serving to render the whole frame rigid to forma support for the rubber or bed b. This frame B is arranged to movevertically, but not laterally, and is suspended by a cord, C', passingover a pulley, t', at the top of the frame A, and down over another atthe end, where it is connected to a lever, E, by which the frame B, andwith it the bed b, may be adjusted vertically, as desired.

A rock-shaft, I), is located transversely of the machine, just above thevat, and has attached rigidly to it a rod or lever, F, to theextremities of which is pivoted a. pitman, r, both above and below, theopposite ends of said pitmen being connected one to the upper and theother to the lower bed, as represented in Fig. 1.

At right angles to the lever F an arm, p, is attached to the rock-shaftI), and this arm p is connected by a rod,m, toa crank, n, on a shaft, l,at the top ot' the frame, by'which means a reciprocating motion isimparted to the beds a and b.

It will be understood that the machine` is made double-that is, that twosets of beds a and b are placed in one vat, and both sets are operatedby the same shaft, P, the other half being a duplicate of that shown inthe drawings.

The operation is as follows: The hats are rolled up and wound separatelyin cloths in the usual manner and then placed between the beds a and b.The vat is then filled with hot water andthe machine set in motion. Thehats are thus rolled to and fro between the reciprocating beds, and thefelting is effected in very expeditious a-nd efficient manner. Byadjusting the bed b the pressure during the operation can be regulatedat will, as desired.`v

vat C, and the latter suspended on the adjustable frameB, arranged tooperate substantially as described.

WM. A. LYON.

In presence of FRANK DEKLYN, J. H. BAssETT.

